Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-10-01 | Page 35 | Gray Hairs Are Rule in Armies

GRAY HAIRS ARE RULE IN ARMIES B Boys s 's Appear as Old Men 1 en War Worry Tr Causes Premature Premature Premature Pre Pre- mature Old Age V i. i London Sept 30 What O. What will be the effect upon future generations of the premature aging of ot millions of men macri mennow mennow now at the battle battlo fronts Army physicians physicians and men men of ot science generally are beginning to discuss the problem It ItIs Itis Is said that soldiers ton ten months I In th the trenches exposed to the shatter nerve In ing shock of or shell fire Ire often orten come out with the tho appearance of ten years havIn having haying hav hay In ing been added to their life lite A shorter er period than this often suffices to turn Iron gray gra th the tho hair hall of or n. n a bo boy of ot 25 li years cars This premature aging is peculiar to tono tono tono no one nationality It is noticeably alike along tho the English and Fren French h lines and among tho the prisoners from Germany German Austria and Russia It Is said Bald to be perhaps a little more pronounced pronounced pro pro- flounced along the eastern fronts where the vast amount of or territory Involved frequently makes neglect of or the wounded wound wound- ed inevitable Ine Thero men have lain for Cor days without medical attention and when finally admitted to hospital have havo given their ages at 21 to 27 7 years when ordinarily the they would have bave been classed as 40 10 to 45 45 We Ve attribute the gray hairs now so noticeable everywhere at the front to subconscious worry said a Canadian arm army surgeon In discussing the subject with a correspondent of the Associated Press A man will not be bo conscious of or any worry at all nil whereas his comrades coma com rides rades will daily comment upon the whitening of his hair I have never known of hair actually growing white overnight a. a as th the novelists are so fond of putting It but It often happens within the space of ot a week or ten days The theory of oC subconscious oCious worry was borne out strikingly a short time timea a ago o In the case of ot a surgeon In charge of or a base baso hospital This hospital was miles back from the time firing line lino and there could have ve been no actual worry as to personal safety or anything of ot that sort The doctor could not recall any worries officially or personally but all an the time his subconscious mind must have been worrying about the folks at home or about matters to which he gave Save not the slightest conscious conscious con con- consideration The gray gT hairs come quicker to the officers than to the Tommies which is again a n. corroboration of or th the subconscious subconscious sub sub- conscious theory The Tho strain of the fighting naturally Is greater with the officer although he may outwardly have the same Joyous spirit of the tho man with the gun who goes over the with a delighted d yell when the command command com corn mand Is given to advance Our nurses too frequently go gray rr-ay without apparent reason for Cor mostly the they are arc women of ot long training amid amicI scenes and arid sufferings o of hospital life